Sentences with phrase «tuition grants under»

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Add in a slew of grants such as the Ontario Tuition Grant, which is available to all students with a family income under $ 160,000, and you quickly realize that almost no one is actually paying the sticker price.

Other skeptics have noted lower - income students, families falling under the $ 30,000 threshold, would not benefit because their tuition is already covered by state and federal aid, including Pell Grants.

Heastie also continued his support for the Educational Opportunity Program — from which he personally benefited — with an increase of $ 5.4 million, and proposed to raise the maximum grant under the Tuition Assistance Program by $ 100.

Under the proposal, the state would ensure free tuition to students by supplementing existing state and federal grant programs — essentially making up the gap.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

According to the College Board, students with annual family incomes under $ 65,000 received enough grant aid to cover the entire cost of tuition at community colleges in 2011 12 (the most recent federal data available).

One way to balance the tradeoff between targeting and simplicity would be to have a grant program that is simple and targeted, such as free tuition for all families making under a certain threshold (e.g., Hillary Clinton's proposal but with a lower income cutoff).

Under that pressure, the tuition grant coalition fell apart during the legislative process, revealing sharp divisions within the ranks of blacks and Republicans.

While a lottery to select voucher recipients chose first from among students in 15 D.C. public schools that failed for two years to meet goals under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, about one in six D.C. children who will receive tuition grants are students who already attend private school.

Note, that these charts do not include institutional need - based grants, referred to as «bursaries» in the English system, which institutions were expected to expand using their new tuition revenues, nor do they reflect changes in loan repayments among graduates, which have clearly become more progressive under the ICL system.

The Texas Attorney General concluded that providing public funds to parochial schools through tuition equalization grants under a religiously neutral program is not inherently unconstitutional under the Texas Constitution because although Texas» second Blaine Amendment (Article VII, Section 5) «prohibits aid to sects -LSB-,]» «not all denominational institutions are sectarian in the constitutional sense.»

After a change in U.S. Supreme Court Establishment Clause jurisprudence, the Alabama Supreme Court held that tuition grants to students attending private schools are constitutional under the First Amendment of U.S. Constitution and Alabama's Blaine Amendment (Article XIV, Section 263) because the aid goes to the student, not the school.

Under a tax - credit scholarship law, individual and / or corporate donors receive tax credits in return for contributions to nonprofit scholarship - granting organizations (SGOs) that help families afford private school tuition.

Under current law, only students with an expected family contribution (EFC)-- the amount that the federal government expects a family to pay toward the student's postsecondary education expenses — of less than about $ 5,200 are eligible for a Pell grant, whereas recipients of subsidized loans may have a larger EFC, as long as it is less than their estimated tuition, room, board, and other costs of attendance not covered by other aid received.

She won a full stipend - tuition scholarship awarded under the SEEK Grant (Search for Education, Evaluation, and Knowledge) at the City University of New York, Queens College (BFA degree, 1966 - 69).